How many people today grab a takeaway coffee cup from the local cafe to drink on the go? We don’t know, but the number must be enormous.. Most every one of the above have a plastic top that will last 100s of years. Some cafes still use plastic cups that last a similar time. Is 10 minutes of coffee worth 100s of years of trash?
These items can be seen littering our gutters and on our streets all over the place. If they were all cardboard, they would still be littered, but they would, at least, be gone in a short time.
They do not need to be made of plastic.
On the way home from the gym last week, a distance of about 1 km (1/2 mile), I counted the items of plastic litter on the curb as I walked. In that short distance I counted 63 pieces of plastic litter. Plastic drink bottles, bottle tops, candy wrappers, plastic film, polystyrene fragments etc. That seemed to be a lot to me. I guess it is a generational thing. Our parents would have been horrified to see that amount, whereas it seems to go unnoticed by our youth of today. In another 20 years how many pieces will there be on this stretch, -- 200? What will today’s youth think of that new amount then when they are older? Will their children be so readily accepting of a higher amount of litter? Wipa files for insolvency as recycling crisis claims first machinery manufacturer Germany
Posted on October 27, 2025 by DrRossH in Plastic RecyclingGermany-based manufacturer of machinery for plastics recycling Wipa Werkzeug- und Maschinenbau GmbH has filed for insolvency.The company is located in western Münsterland in the city of Stadtlohn, near the border with the Netherlands. Wipa entered provisional insolvency proceedings on Oct. 1, a…
Between January and July 2025, Europe lost almost the same amount of capacity as in the whole of 2024, according to Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE).
The capacity lost so far this year is three times the amount lost in 2023.
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